E-Commerce Database Issues and Experience

Summary: Practical experience scaling transactional workloads in e-commerce, balancing inventory/order consistency with availability. Covers product-search indexing, caching, monitoring, backups/deployments, and analytics warehousing; notes C/P trade-offs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3205
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,133 | 3.04%
DOI: 10.1145/304182.304246

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Authors

1. Anand Rajaraman (Amazon)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{rajaraman_sigmod99,
        title = {{E-Commerce Database Issues and Experience}},
        author = {Rajaraman, Anand},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/304182.304246},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304246},
        year = {1999}
}

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